www.heritageireland.ie/en/west/aughnanurecastle/
County Galway
Admission: free to the grounds. Normally you would pay to visit the town, but as of 2015 it was under renovation.
September 2015
My dad and I stopped here on our drive from Galway to Kylemore Abbey in Connemara. It was, perhaps the best castle of the five we stopped at on our trip.
This most fulfilled the romantic idea of a castle that we have developed from our Hollywood movies. As you walk up the path from the carpark, you can see the castle walls peeking out of the trees. It makes you feel like you are one of Robin Hood's men about to steal the gold or rescue Friar Tuck. You enter over an actual drawbridge and you can see the remnants of where the moat was.
When we visited, the tower was not open due to renovations, but the grounds themselves proved more than interesting.
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